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World Water Day 2013

Graduate Research Symposium and Water Celebration

Keynote Speakers:

Dr. Gail Krantzberg, McMaster University

"Great Lakes, Great Responsibilities"

Dr. Krantzberg
is Professor and Director of the Centre for Engineering
and Public Policy in the School of Engineering at McMaster University
offering Canada’s first Master’s Degree in Engineering and Public Policy. Gail
completed her M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in environmental
science and freshwaters.She worked for
the Ontario Ministry of Environment from 1988 to 2001, as Coordinator of
Remedial Action Plan and Great Lakes Programs, and Senior Policy Advisor on
Great Lakes. In her tenure there she was intensely engaged in binational Great
Lakes science and policy venues, including direct interactions with the Great
Lakes Commission, Board membership on the Great Lakes Observing system, president
of the International Association of Great Lakes Research, The Great Lakes St.
Lawrence Cities Initiative, Board Member of the Canadian Water Foundation,
member of the International Joint Commission’s Water Quality Board, Sediment
Priority Action Commitee, Indicators Implementation Task Force, and Council of
Great Lakes Research Managers.Dr. Krantzberg was the Director of the
Great Lakes Regional Office of the International Joint Commission from 2001 to
2005. In 2007 she was appointed as an adjunct faculty member of the United
Nations University Institute for Water and Environmental Health and
participated in the twinning of the Laurentian and African Great Lakes
(principally Lake Victoria).She has
authored 4 books and more than 130 scientific and policy articles on issues
pertaining to ecosystem quality and sustainability and is a frequent speaker to
media and the public.

Dr. Bruce Pardy, Queen's University

"Drowning in Confusion: The Debate over Water Rights"

Bruce Pardy is a
professor of environmental law at Queen’s University. He has written
extensively on environmental governance, ecosystem management, climate change,
water policy and environmental liability, and has taught environmental law at
law schools in Canada, the United States and New Zealand. Professor Pardy practiced litigation at Borden
Ladner Gervais LLP in Toronto, and sits on the Ontario Environmental Review
Tribunal as an adjudicator and mediator.

Discussion and Viewing of the award winning documentary People of a Feather with Joel Heath, President and Co-Founder of the Arctic Eider Society.

Synopsis: Featuring groundbreaking footage from seven winters in the Arctic,
People of a Feather takes you through time into the world of Inuit on
the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay. Connecting past present and future is
a unique cultural relationship with the eider duck. Eider down, the
warmest feather in the world, allows both Inuit and bird to survive
harsh Arctic winters. Recreations of traditional life are juxtaposed
with modern life in Sanikiluaq, as both people and eiders face the
challenges posed by changing sea ice and ocean currents disrupted by the
massive hydroelectric dams powering eastern North America. The eyes of a
remote subsistence culture challenge the world to find energy solutions
that work with the seasons of our hydrological cycle.

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